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You still have time to ask Santa for a new camcorder. In this Monday’s Link Roundup you can find some help in selecting just the right one by going to the Videomaker’s Annual 2010 Camcorders Buyer’s Guide. For those concerned about the future of print you’ll want to head over to Bill Moggridge, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jimmy Wales on the Future of Media Design [Videos].

• On Light and Dark: the historicity of colour and non-colour photographs. “…the photographs, appearing in beautiful  vibrant colours, were taken prior to the First World War…There’s something about a colour photo that makes it feel more recent; closer to our own lifetime; more alive. When I think about this concept I know it’s ridiculous, but I adhere to it subconsciously. I think about the way I’m seeing these images and it occurs to me that I have certain expectations – cultural cues and codes my mind has been trained to see – as an observer of images in the 21st century.”

• HOW TO: Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile. “With more than 85 million members in more than 200 countries, LinkedIn is a professional social network worth using, understanding and optimizing.”

• More Than 50,000 Historic New York City Images Online Now! “The Museum of the City of New York is pleased to announce the soft launch of its online collections portal…This is the first phase in a project to digitize the Museum’s entire photography collection, and additional images will be uploaded as they’re digitized and cataloged.” [Thanks to APH  member Marcy Davis for alerting me to this item.]

• Bill Moggridge, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jimmy Wales on the Future of Media Design [Videos]. “Print isn’t dead, Designing Media, a fascinating new doorstop of a book by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum chief Bill Moggridge, seems to say. It’s just waiting for design to save it. That counts as one of the more provocative ideas in a book full of the stuff. Moggridge — who invented the first laptop and cofounded IDEO — takes the fraught world of media, both old and new, and looks at it as a series of design problems. How do you design news as a social platform? Or newspapers at a time when everyone’s reading websites?”

• How to Build a Referral Engine. “Getting a steady stream of referrals is the dream of most businesses. The right kind of referred leads are pure gold. They are often more qualified, less price sensitive, and more apt to refer business once they become a customer.”

• Videomaker’s Annual 2010 Camcorders Buyer’s Guide. “In last year’s Annual Camcorders Buyer’s Guide, we divided camcorders by price. This approach still makes some sense, but it may not offer what you need to get your ‘perfect’ camcorder. The reason? The advent of flash-based ‘brick’ camcorders – often packaged like MP3 players with digital zoom lens added – and the growing popularity of HDTV at the high end means that your choices have become ever more complex. If you buy based on price alone, you could get the wrong camcorder for your needs.”

• Interview as story: on radio, online and in print. “Whether they use full-on storytelling or just crib a few literary devices, interviews have their own narrative arcs and angles. From political drama (think the Frost-Nixon standoff or “The Fog of War”) to Studs Terkel’s cultural layering, interviews create a kind of permanent present-tense experience for viewers.”

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